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Author_J.P. Sommerville
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constitutional theory
Cowell's Book
Cowell’s Book
early modern England
Early Seventeenth Century England
Early Stuart Politics
Edward III
England's Ruling Classes
England’s Ruling Classes
English Civil War ideological origins
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Iv Il War
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liberties
Lord Chancellor Ellesmere
monarchy legitimacy debate
nicholas
Nicholas Fuller
Om Inis
Ow Ell
Philip III
political thought history
Pseudo-M Artyr
religious conflict studies
Royal Supremacy
seventeenth-century governance
Ship Money
Sir Henry Finch
St John's College
St John's College Cambridge
St John’s College
St John’s College Cambridge
St Thomas Aquinas
Subject's Liberties
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Subject’s Liberties
Vice Versa
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War Time
Product details
- ISBN 9781138176379
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 05 Dec 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This well-known book reasserts the central importance of political and religious ideology in the origins of the English Civil War. Recent historiography has concentrated on its social and economic causes: Sommerville reminds us what the people of the time thought they were fighting about. Examining the main political theories in c.17th England - the Divine Right of Kings, government by consent, and the ancient constitution - he considers their impact on actual events. He draws on major political thinkers like Hobbes and Locke, but also on lesser but more representative figures, to explore what was new in these ideas and what was merely the common currency of the age. This major new edition incorporates all the latest thinking on the subject.
